It is more likely more people here suffer from A.D.D. rather than Aysper.
I can relate to each of the 5 things posted above, but in no fashion could they be used to describe me.
The Syndrome is effected by your logical dictaction and interpretation to constantly HAVE to improve your surroundings by any means possible. It doesn't just relate to Computing.
Obsessive behaviour comes from a lack of will-power within a given area, this is really the basis of most syndromes. Kinda like a cornerstone.
You are ONLY obsessed with something, if you are unable to stop doing something when you want to. Say for example your working on some killer application but your thirsty and need to go to the shops for a drink.
An obsessive person will still be trying to do it 6 hours later, because they can't leave without finishing the next line which apparently never comes. These are people you have to literally drag from the screen, and tell them to get something from the candy machine to keep themselves alive.
Your second one about artwork is wrong. It is not an artistic affliction to be creative, but an affliction for someone to believe that only they can improve a given situation through thier understandings. Most of the time they can only get as far as knowing what they want to do, and rarely get further than attaining the knowlage to ACTUALLY accomplish it.
This is a major difference between an artist, because they don't vye for improving the world.. they just want to retell the world how they interpret it. It is another form of communication, lost with all translation with the modern art.. as they're just trying to convey raw and simple emotions than explain a tapestry of the world with all it's interwoven strands.
Trances.. erm well that's not a trance that's just concentrating on something else. Whenever I'm working on a project I'll often hear (and even react to people) but be so fully integrated in to what I'm doing that I don't really realise what is going on around me. It provides focus, but doesn't mean I'm in a trance or such, just a simple fact that I can't concentrate on more than 1 or 2 things at once.
I'm a guy... we can't multi-task, nowt to do with being able to trance.
Pacing, helps people focus. Simply because your concentrating on something else, like pacing so your mind can't actually go off track and try to think of something else. As I said above, we're guys, we can't multi-task... most of us can only do 1 or 2 things, as such you busy yourself with a second thing if the first thing can't take up both thought tracks.
For women they can seem to seemlessly multi-task hundreds of things at once.
As for being Shy.. well that describes over half the worlds population. Most people are afraid of new things, locations or just simply not knowing what to expect. As such this means you Shy away and try not to communicate until someone less shy than you starts a dialog.
Really the correct symtom is not someone who is Shy, but someone who refuses human contact. That although will work in a social situation will prefer to just sit on thier own doing thier own thing. Not to the point where they TRY to push people away (that's something different) but to the point where they're almost afraid of being social.
It's more likely most people here actually suffer from A.D.D. . It has similar symtoms.
